[gPXE] gpxe & keeping pxe stack loaded & DOS NDIS??

[Greg Fuller]

I made all of the changes you suggested below and it appears like it did
the trick.  My DOS floppy now boots properly and loads the DOS undi
ndis.sys driver properly as well as the netbind.com command works too.
I can obtain an IP address in DOS and I've got full network connectivity
now.  

Hopefully this helps confirm the issue so a fix can be applied to a
future release.  

--greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Shao Miller [mailto:Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 23:43
To: Greg Fuller
Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: Re: [gPXE] gpxe & keeping pxe stack loaded & DOS NDIS??


Shao Miller wrote:
> ...This appears to be a regression in gPXE, since your image as well
> as my own DOS UNDI testing image both fail with the same error...

Well, it's a regression _of_sorts_. :)  It turns out that I'd only ever 
gotten undionly.kkpxe to work in testing with a tiny change to gPXE.  
That change is incompatible with a certain change that was committed 
some time ago, now.

Could you please temporarily change your ldms-dos label entry to:

LABEL ldms-dos
  MENU LABEL Managed DOS
  MENU INDENT 1
  KERNEL ldms-dos.gpxe

and plop the following ldms-dos.gpxe script into the same directory as 
menu.cfg that goes:

#!gpxe
kernel memdisk floppy
initrd ldms/x86pc/undi/dosundi/dosundi.1
ifclose net0
boot memdisk

and remove any sign of any 'startpxe' command that you have, and use the

undionly.kkpxe from here[1].

If you could please confirm that this works, that would be great.
Thanks.

- Shao Miller

[1] http://etherboot.org/share/sha0/gpxe/src/bin/undionly.kkpxe